Today: Album art innovations

With the advent of music streaming the intimate relationship that music lovers have long enjoyed with the album, in particular the album cover, is in danger of disappearing. However, a backlash is now under way to reinvent the album sleeve for a new generation. Mark Schifferli is a software engineer at Fathom Information Design and Matthew Cooper is a freelance designer who has worked for bands including Hot Chip, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys and Four Tet.